Faces of Ethiopia
(1973)
People of the Danakil desert.
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Danakil women are fierce,
sometimes shy, but incredibly beautiful.
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Left: I saw this woman in
an oasis. She had arrived alone with her camel and left in the same way.
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Women at a well.
Chasing shade during
the incredibly hot summer days.
Eating lunch, a kind of
porridge.
Drinking slightly
fermented palm syrup.
Cutting blocks of salt
in lake Asele, where temperature often exceeds 45dg C (Danakil desert). These
blocks are later loaded on camels that carry them to the high plateau. From
there they are distributed across most of Ethiopia.
Danakils and Tigrayan people in a market
between the highlands of Tigray and the Danakil dsert.
People of Tigre.
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Priests.
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Drinking tela
(fermented barley) in a cave after Sunday mass.
People of the Simien mountains.
In 1973, Falashas
(Ethiopians of Jewish faith) livingin the Simien mountains had not yet been
uplifted to Israel.
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